Mantle (HeyMantle) is shutting down: the best alternatives, feature by feature

What to use instead, in one table

What happened to Mantle

Mantle (heymantle.com, often called HeyMantle) announced on June 16, 2026, in its help center, that it was winding down: a complete shutdown of all Mantle properties and, eventually, the destruction of its data. Accounts that did not use Mantle Billing had until August 14, 2026. Accounts that used it kept everything, analytics included, until September 30, 2026.

As of October 31, 2026, no Mantle page says the service has ended: the home page still offers a 30-day free trial and the status page shows no notice. We did not test an account, so we cannot say what still works after signing in. The dates above are Mantle's own, so do not start anything new on it.

Mantle's wind-down FAQ says the Shopify App Store Index (SASI), which Mantle acquired in May 2024 together with App Store Analytics, is winding down too, with no date. The SASI site was still online on October 31, 2026.

If you used Mantle: your data

Mantle writes that it keeps your data for 30 days after your end date. By its own dates, that window closed on September 13 for most accounts and on October 30 for billing accounts. If you did not export, write to Mantle's support now; we do not know whether it can still help.

• Analytics and affiliates: Mantle's guides describe an export by email, as several CSV files.
• Help desk tickets: through its API only, with no CSV export.
• Flows, its automations: no export at all, so you rewrite them.
• Revenue, subscriptions and installs: nothing is lost, because this history belongs to Shopify and the Partner API returns it to any tool you connect.
• Rank history kept only by SASI: nobody can rebuild it. A new tool's rank history starts the day you add your app, unless it has been reading the App Store itself.

Billing: move to Shopify App Pricing

This is the one piece without a real choice: apps on the App Store must use a billing solution provided by Shopify. Shopify App Pricing is the current one, and the Billing API is still supported as the legacy method, with no end date announced. More in our guide to Shopify App Pricing.

Since the end of September 2026, existing subscriptions can move without merchants approving again. The Partner Dashboard handles simple subscriptions; usage-based plans, price changes and private plans go through Shopify CLI. Our step-by-step migration guide has the details. A few limits to check before you start:

• A scheduled move can be canceled, but once a subscription has changed to its new plan it cannot be undone.
• A subscription with an active discount cannot move until the discount ends, and annual plans change at renewal.
• One-time purchases and usage caps are not supported, and plan prices are in US dollars only.
• Usage pricing cannot be combined with yearly-only plans, a blocker raised by a developer leaving Mantle in August 2026.
• Mantle's Flex Billing has no direct equivalent: Mantle itself says you will likely need to build it yourself.

Analytics and App Store data

This is where most tools compete, and no single one is best for everyone. It depends on what you read most often:

• Revenue and App Store data in one place: Luseri, SaaS Insights, AppStorePulse, LetsMetrix, Ranksy and AppVitals, among others.
• Revenue only: Baremetrics, ChartMogul or Kurt Elster's open-source dashboard.
• Keywords and rankings only: AppJubilee or Rankbase.

Our comparison of analytics tools gives what each one covers, its prices and where it is stronger. For SASI's public rankings in particular, see our SASI guide.

Affiliates

All five are built for Shopify app developers. Prices as published on October 31, 2026; we did not test their products. Fees, caps and what happens to your links are in our comparison of Mantle affiliate tools.

Emails, help desk and CRM

For emails, Mantle's guide names Customer.io, Klaviyo, Loops and Resend. Luseri also sends emails to your merchants when a store installs, uninstalls, starts a trial, pays for the first time or stops its plan, from your own Resend account. Your app has to send it the merchants' addresses, because Shopify does not share them. It does not do newsletters or campaigns.

For the help desk, Mantle's guide names Gorgias, Zendesk, Intercom and Help Scout. Two tools pitch Shopify apps directly: Convot, which shows a merchant's MRR beside the chat and is free until $1,000 of MRR, then $49 to $299 a month; and SuperRelay, free or from $45 a month billed annually.

For a CRM, a file on each merchant, Elevate by Marmeto offers one, and Lunvo announces one in early access. On Shopify's forum, one developer plans to build everything in-house on Twenty, an open-source CRM that is not specific to Shopify.

Open source and building it yourself

• mantle-brain, published by Mantle under the MIT license: guides and agent skills to recreate its billing, analytics and automation tools. It contains no finished product, and its last update dates from June 30, 2026.
• SlotDock, MIT license: customers, plans, reports, reviews and an import from Mantle. Its author calls it a personal project in beta.
• Rapid-CRM, MIT license: billing and analytics for Shopify apps.

These are young projects, and you host and maintain them yourself. As one developer put it on Shopify's forum after the announcement, a replacement does not buy back the trust Mantle had built, so check who is behind any tool you adopt, ours included.

What Luseri replaces

• Monthly recurring revenue and what moves it: new subscribers, upgrades, downgrades, cancellations, returning subscribers.
• What you were actually paid, shown in your payout currency, separate from the price of your plans.
• Retention by cohort, and the reasons merchants give Shopify when they uninstall.
• A page per merchant: plan, history, payments.
• Your App Store listing: reviews and rating over time, daily category rank, up to six competitors side by side, and a log of what changed on each listing.
• Keyword positions, read once a day, and listing traffic read from your own Google Analytics: views, the searches merchants typed, your position at that moment, install clicks and confirmed installs.
• Optional event tracking inside your app, with a health score per store, and automatic emails to your merchants.

It does not replace billing, affiliates or a help desk. For Shopify data it only reads: it never creates a charge and never writes to your Shopify account. Luseri is free for now, while it welcomes its first users, and free for life for accounts created before paid plans launch. Planned plans, per app and per month: $14.99 up to $2,000 of MRR, $29.99 up to $10,000, $69.99 above, announced by email at least 30 days ahead.

How the switch to Luseri works

1. Create an account with an email address and a password.
2. Paste the address of your app in the Shopify Partner Dashboard, which carries your Partner ID and your app's ID, and the token of a Partner API client you create in Shopify's Dev Dashboard. An illustrated guide shows where each one is.
3. Your history is copied from Shopify in about a minute. It comes from the Partner API, not from Mantle, so there is nothing to export for revenue and installs.